Incoming Essex County District Attorney Paul Tucker has settled on an executive team with deep North Shore roots.

Former Beverly City Councilor Scott Dullea will join Tucker’s staff in January in a senior legal advisory role. Current Salem Assistant City Solicitor Sharyn Lubas will assume an inward-facing role, overseeing operational and administrative matters. And longtime Massachusetts reporter - and onetime Salem Evening News writer - Glen Johnson will work in an external affairs position, handing communications and spokesperson roles, community outreach and working with Tucker, Dullea and Lubas on broader policy goals for the office.

Dullea was an early campaign supporter of Tucker’s and was credited by the DA-elect during his victory speech on primary night in September, when the Salem state representative defeated Middleton defense attorney James O’Shea. Tucker didn’t face a Republican opponent on Election Day.

Dullea is a graduate of New England Law and started his career as an assistant district attorney in Essex County. He served on Beverly’s City Council from 2012 to 2014 and has been working most recently as a trial and defense lawyer as a partner at DDSK Law, a Beverly firm.

Lubas is a longtime Tucker aide, working alongside him when he was Salem police chief. Like Tucker, she’s a graduate of Massachusetts School of Law and spent five years as executive director of NEMLEC, the regional law enforcement group serving northeastern Massachusetts.

Johnson had his first full-time newspaper job in Salem before working at the Lowell Sun, Associated Press in Boston and Washington, and the Boston Globe in Washington and Boston. Most recently, he spent 18 months as Politics Editor at Axios before returning to communications consulting in May.

Johnson's work in his home county is his second stint in public service, having left journalism in 2013 to spend four years as senior strategic communications adviser to Secretary of State John Kerry. He wrote an award-winning book about his time at the State Department and world travels, “Window Seat on the World.”

“My goal is to ensure public safety through thoughtful prosecutions, judicious use of alternative programs and aggressive community outreach with key stakeholders in all of the county’s 34 cities and towns,” Tucker said in a statement. “Scott, Sharyn and Glen bring a lot of experience in their individual disciplines, as well as Essex County, and I’m honored they’ve all agreed to work with me and the very talented men and women who already staff the Essex County District Attorney’s Office.”